Solstice Sunset by BrandtM

I try to avoid reposting a file, however, due to the lack of a replacement option in 500px, every once in a while a current edit of a previous photo is so much better it seems to make sense to update it with a new upload. This is from the June Solstice, or within a day or two of it, in 2014. Thank you for visiting.

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Funnel Factory by alexnoriega

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Soft pre-dawn light on the walls of a large mesa in central Utah. You’re looking at approximately one thousand vertical feet of shale here.

This is a wider version of my previously posted image, Firewall. I normally don’t ever post two images of the same scene, as I like to show my strongest work from a given scene, and I think showing many slightly-different variants just dilutes the images, making none of them particularly memorable. However, this wider, more all-encompassing composition, and the softer light, better show off the form and abstract patterns of the wall – and the color (I thought) helped make it different enough to warrant another look. At the moment, this is my favorite of the two images. Plus, this view includes my little boulder-bro in the lower left!

One more of my favorite images from this trip will be posted before the Thanksgiving holiday (less abstract and more “epic”, for those wondering if I gave up on that style of photography)!

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Silk by BogdanVasilic

Butte Creek Falls, Marion county, Oregon
Novembar 2015.
78 foot waterfall on a Butte Creek trail consists total of 3 waterfalls, more famous Upper Butte Creek Falls, Butte and Lower Butte Creek Waterfall. All roaming through thick maple and evergreen forests, steep cliffs and slippery rocks which makes this one particularly really hard base accessible during rain hours.
This is single frame image processed in LR with PS Orton Effect added in PS.
Fall is for me special part of the year to visit diversity what Oregon can offer for us landscape photographer, from high wave actions on Pacific through high altitude fall colors with lush blue waterfalls and snow covered peaks, combinations that every landscape photographer wants, and that was my trip consistent from.

And for most and not the last, my prayers goes for the injured and killed in massive attack in Paris, FR.
Europe, France stay strong! 

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Firewall by alexnoriega

First light on the walls of a large mesa in southern Utah.

Felt good to ignore the blazing sunrise all around me while shooting this – I think I’ve only made two images so far with a sky in them. I’ve been focusing more on intimate imagery, as I was inspired to check out this place by Guy Tal’s incredible portfolio of the area. I normally don’t post from the road, but the processing on this image was simple enough to trust my laptop screen for it. More new images to come later this month!

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Badlands Atmospheric Chaos by Aric-Jaye

Atmospheric chaos at Badlands National Park in South Dakota .
As the glowing sun was rising in the east, the upper painterly cloud layer was moving slowly westward. The middle, rain promising, dark cloud layer was moving slowly eastward as a fast moving, all consuming fog layer was also moving eastward, engulfing everything in its path in a matter of minutes. It was truly a beautiful spectacle of nature to behold

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Palouse by piriya

Spring is my favorite time to photograph the hills in Palouse area. Everywhere looks so freshly green.

Taken from Steptoe Butte State Park

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